Word: corrupts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read of Richard Kleindienst's loss of composure at his sentencing [June 17], I realized that all these men, including Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean, Magruder and even possibly Colson, were not the over-zealous corrupters of the office of the presidency. Rather they were the idealistic dupes of a corrupt, embittered President intent upon the political and financial destruction of all his imagined enemies...
...much embrace causes as nurture discontent. When so wide a public feels frustrated?by inflation, for example?its collective fury is greatly feared by politicians. Since it has not paid attention to issues and details, it can be sweeping and unselective in its revenge, throwing out incumbents?competent and corrupt alike...
Where are the basketball wonder boys now? Three of the four old players still live in the small town where they grew up. One is the mayor, a corrupt, old-time politician. Another is his campaign manager, a junior high school principal of self-acknowledged mediocrity. And then there is the big financer of the mayor's campaign, a strip-miner, protected by His Honor from the angry cries of eco-freaks. All three men sport a veneer of small town success. The fourth member of the group has left the town where he grew up, just...
...Patricia Hearst has not only fallen victim to a tragic kidnaping but also to a phylogenetically evolved trait that Konrad Lorenz in his book On Aggression calls "militant enthusiasm." It is a behavior pattern precipitated when young people especially are abruptly exposed to the corrupt, hypocritical aspects of society and thereupon reject all the values and social traditions of that society. They then look for a cause that represents new and higher ideals into which they can wholeheartedly throw themselves. We have all experienced this phenomenon at one time in our lives, whether we acted upon...
PERHAPS THE REPORTERS feel that this is all past history, that the new secretary of state deserves a second chance. But tough questions, unasked by most reporters, remain. Why does the United States continue sending aid to South Vietnam, enabling a corrupt and undemocratic government to continue fighting? What gives the Nixon administration a right to use $266 million found in "a clerical error" to wage an allegedly ended war, when it has impounded unspent money appropriated by Congress for poverty and education programs...